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Arlington author publishes novel, "The Man Who Stole The Sun"

Author Jay Jacob Wind publishes first novel, "The Man Who Stole The Sun," set entirely in Arlington the day before Marine Corps Marathon

Jay Jacob Wind, Community Contributor

  • FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, December 18, 2017
  • For more information, please contact Jay Jacob Wind (703-927-4833, arlingtonsunrise@gmail.com)
  • Arlington author Jay Jacob Wind publishes his first novel, "The Man Who Stole The Sun"
  • Arlington Sun Gazette staff writer Jay Jacob Wind published his first novel on December 9, a techno-thriller entitled "The Man Who Stole The Sun," available now on Amazon Kindle.Set entirely in Arlington and written in the style of the TV show "24," the suspense story revolves around three Arlington runners planning to run Marine Corps Marathon the next day.
  • One of them, running his 21st Marine Corps Marathon, a genius inventor, visually-impaired and obsessed by his desire to see the Sun with his own eyes, gets a fusion reactor up-and-running the day before the marathon, in a building that just happens at mile 25 of the marathon, with unexpected consequences. The other two marathoners are an Arlington County police officer, earlier disabled in action, and his daughter, both heroic, both running their first 26.2-miler.
  • The rest of the ensemble cast includes assistants at the reactor -- a bright engineer-programmer, a hard-working heavy-equipment operator, a highly creative Ethiopian woman, and three brothers who were born in Russia but grew up with their freedom-fighter father in Syria; the inventor's wife and cat; an intrepid reporter from the fictional Washington Today and her editor; Arlington County's police chief, fire chief, and a middle school principal; a world-class computer software designer who solved two problems that we all face every day; and an unnamed youth track coach / track meet and marathon director.
  • Author Jay Jacob Wind said, "The story takes many twists and turns, but always lays out clues in advance. Anton Chekhov said, 'If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off.' If you follow everything in the first half of the book, from 5:00 AM to 5:00 PM on the Saturday before Marine Corps Marathon, then you may be able to anticipate the fast-moving action in the second half, from 6:00 PM that Saturday to 8:00 AM on the Sunday of Marine Corps Marathon. This book is the first-ever fiction novel to involve Marine Corps Marathon, and you learn what it takes to train for and then run Marine Corps Marathon, but wait, there's more. Along the way, you learn quantum mechanics, astrophysics, the elusive "Theory of Everything," Internet history, a little bit of Russian language, a lot of chess, and how three families show their love in three very different ways."
  • The book is available for $4.99 directly via www.amazon.com/dp/B0789VMT9D or the author's web page www.arlingtonsunrise.com -- also available in hard copy for purchase for $10 via PayPal toarlingtonsunrise@gmail.com
  • One dollar of every sale goes to Old Dominion Eye Foundation.

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